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Blood pressure reference values for Brazilian adolescents: data from the Study of Cardiovascular Risk in Adolescents (ERICA Study).
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- Reference Curves for Metabolic Syndrome Indicators in Children and Adolescents: A Global Systematic Review.Current obesity reports · 2026Pooled it
- Brazilian Guidelines for In-office and Out-of-office Blood Pressure Measurement - 2023.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2024Guideline
- Effect of obesity on cardiovascular morphofunctional phenotype: Study of Mendelian randomization.Medicine · 2025Article
- Prevalence of and Factors Associated With High Blood Pressure at 15 Years of Age: A Birth Cohort Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Article
- Family history of arterial hypertension and central adiposity: impact on blood pressure in schoolchildren.BMC pediatrics · 2022Article
- Assessment by ABPM verified the presence of hypertension in patients with self-reported hypertension, pregnant women, as well as differences between ethnicities in women aged 38-39 years in the Ribeirão Preto cohort.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Article
- Discrepancies in the diagnosis of hypertension in adolescents according to available office and home high blood pressure criteria.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2022Article
- Brazilian Guidelines of Hypertension - 2020.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2021Article
- Brazilian pediatricians need to use national blood pressure reference values for their adolescents.Jornal de pediatriaArticle
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Abstract
objectiveBlood pressure (BP) references for Brazilian adolescents are lacking in the literature. This study aims to investigate the normal range of office BP in a healthy, non-overweight Brazilian population of adolescents.
methodThe Brazilian Study of Cardiovascular Risks in Adolescents (Portuguese acronym "ERICA") is a national school-based study that included adolescents (aged 12 through 17 years), enrolled in public and private schools, in cities with over 100,000 inhabitants, from all five Brazilian macro-regions. Adolescents' height and body mass index (BMI) were classified in percentiles according to age and gender, and reference curves from the World Health Organization were adopted. Three consecutive office BP measurements were taken with a validated oscillometric device using the appropriate cuff size. The mean values of the last two readings were used for analysis. Polynomial regression models relating BP, age, and height were applied.
resultsAmong 73,999 adolescents, non-overweight individuals represented 74.5% (95% CI: 73.3-75.6) of the total, with similar distribution across ages. The majority of the non-overweight sample was from public schools 84.2% (95% CI: 79.9-87.7) and sedentary 54.8% (95% CI: 53.7-55.8). Adolescents reporting their skin color as brown (48.8% [95% CI: 47.4-50.1]) or white (37.8% [95% CI: 36.1-39.5]) were most frequently represented. BP increased by both age and height percentile. Systolic BP growth patterns were more marked in males when compared to females, along all height percentiles. The same pattern was not observed for diastolic BP.
conclusionsBlood pressure references by sex, age, and height percentiles for Brazilian adolescents are provided.
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